Article in "New Delhi" on a new law proposed by India's "Ministry of Science and Technology" that could jail Indian citizens who question the safety of any GM food!

Date:   2/26/2010 5:11:33 PM ( 14 y ago)

"Once past the 'gag-me reflex', this is actually a good sign. It means those promoting Frankenfoods have run out of credible comebacks to criticism of the science falsely-called 'genetic engineering'. They've fallen back to the tyrant's tactic: outlawing dissent."

Gordon S Watson

Justice Critic, Party of Citizens


Govt Moots Jail For GM Food Critics
Dinesh C Sharma
New Delhi, February 19, 2010

"An Indian citizen who questions the safety of any GM food or medicine could be put behind bars for a minimum period of six months under a new law proposed by the ministry."

"The Bill has come under attack by several civil society activists. 'This is a gag order, absolutely draconian and violative of the Indian constitution which guarantees the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression,' said Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Under the proposed law, journalists writing critical articles would also be in violation and would come under punishment.

'If this law was in force today, environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who has questioned the safety of GM crops, would have been behind bars because he would have violated it,' said Devinder Sharma of the Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security. 'It is a dirty attempt to turn science into a ghetto, where all of us will be subjected to unhealthy GM products pushed down our throats by a willing government'.":

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/84730/Govt+moots+jail+for+GM+food+cri...

Updated article:
"An India-US Agriculture Knowledge Initiative is already in place since Clinton’s visit last October, which provides for US-based private multinational seed giants like Monsanto and Cargill to be appointed on the board, enabling them to bear huge influence on India’s farm sector."
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Corporatising+agriculture...



 

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